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        <title>Afghanistan: The new Iraq? - Talk of the Town - talkofthetown&apos;s Blog - Bakersfield.com</title>
        <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/talkofthetown/28472</link>
        <description>Is the situation in Afghanistan spiraling out of control?
Following a prison attack that released hundreds of insurgent fighters three days ago and news that the May monthly death toll for allied troops in Afghanistan surpassed that in Iraq, the Associated Press is reporting that Taliban fighters have overtaken several villages in southern Afghanistan.
(read the whole story here)
Did we ever finish the job properly in the first place?&amp;nbsp;</description>
        <itunes:summary>Is the situation in Afghanistan spiraling out of control?
Following a prison attack that released hundreds of insurgent fighters three days ago and news that the May monthly death toll for allied troops in Afghanistan surpassed that in Iraq, the Associated Press is reporting that Taliban fighters have overtaken several villages in southern Afghanistan.
(read the whole story here)
Did we ever finish the job properly in the first place?&amp;nbsp;</itunes:summary>
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                <title>Jun 16,  2008 at 08:06 AM : Being that we went to...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Being that we went to Afghanistan years before Iraq, and we are surging w/ more troops back to the basis of this war, it&#039;s only expected that the death tolls are in excess to that of Iraq. Iraq was the new Afghanistan....how soon we are forgetting our history&lt;/p&gt;
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                <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/talkofthetown/28472/#c_257437</link>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;Being that we went to Afghanistan years before Iraq, and we are surging w/ more troops back to the basis of this war, it&#039;s only expected that the death tolls are in excess to that of Iraq. Iraq was the new Afghanistan....how soon we are forgetting our history&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Jun 16,  2008 at 08:06 AM : All the anti American,...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;All the anti American, Bush bashing  rhetoric that is spewed forth by our LW lib fifth column gives our enimes the message that if they keep it up we will give up and go home. The neocommies that now run the democrat party should be proud of themselfs.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
                <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/talkofthetown/28472/#c_257438</link>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;All the anti American, Bush bashing  rhetoric that is spewed forth by our LW lib fifth column gives our enimes the message that if they keep it up we will give up and go home. The neocommies that now run the democrat party should be proud of themselfs.&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 16,  2008 at 09:06 AM : Naw.. everything is...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Naw.. everything is under control, just send some more of our troops in, hej they are not your sons and daughters...just send someone elses kids in and let them get killed and maimed...everything is ok..it`s under control..too many kids anyway...send them...they believe...go USA..maybe they will make a mini-series and air it on Fox...&amp;quot;The USA is the biggest and badest in the world, or at least #3&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; a 3 part series at 9pm ...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
                <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/talkofthetown/28472/#c_257452</link>
                <guid>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/talkofthetown/28472/#c_257452</guid>
                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;Naw.. everything is under control, just send some more of our troops in, hej they are not your sons and daughters...just send someone elses kids in and let them get killed and maimed...everything is ok..it`s under control..too many kids anyway...send them...they believe...go USA..maybe they will make a mini-series and air it on Fox...&amp;quot;The USA is the biggest and badest in the world, or at least #3&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; a 3 part series at 9pm ...&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>     
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                <title>Jun 16,  2008 at 10:06 AM : &amp;nbsp;
spewed...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;spewed forth by our LW lib fifth column gives our enimes the message that if they keep it up we will give up and go home&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our &amp;quot;enimes&amp;quot; got that message when Saint Ronnie pulled the U.S. Marines out of Beirut right after the barracks were bombed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;They got the message again when Bush capitulated to bin Laden and pulled U.S. troops out of Saudi Arabia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
                <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/talkofthetown/28472/#c_257548</link>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;spewed forth by our LW lib fifth column gives our enimes the message that if they keep it up we will give up and go home&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our &amp;quot;enimes&amp;quot; got that message when Saint Ronnie pulled the U.S. Marines out of Beirut right after the barracks were bombed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;They got the message again when Bush capitulated to bin Laden and pulled U.S. troops out of Saudi Arabia.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Jun 16,  2008 at 09:06 PM : 100 more years in...</title>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;100 more years in Afghanistan. Minimum.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
                <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/talkofthetown/28472/#c_257981</link>
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                <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;100 more years in Afghanistan. Minimum.&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>     
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